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i had a cheap old 30 gig hard disk, i jus recently replaced it with a 500 gig drive, i didnt put it in as a slave drive cause the old 1 had loads of viruses on it, so i just replaced it, i also installed a 500W power supply, my old 1 was only 420W, and i got a new hard disk cooling system, i reformatted the disk and everything without a hitch, all the drivers went in fine, then i loaded halo, it installed fine, when i played it, the graphics were amazingly better, like 4 times better than before, but i get lag now on the maps that require more graphics, like the coventant ones and such, i never had this problem before, it was great graphics and everything ran smoothly before, the thing is, its the same exact graphics card, and all its drivers r installed, i have the halo graphics set to max like always, and i havent changed any settings that i kno of that i didnt change before on the card, i tried reinstalling halo, and the graphics card drivers, and i even reformatted a second time, same thing happened, i get a 10 to 25 dropp in frame rate, i think somehow since the graphics look alot better that the settings r set higher, so that it has a slower frame rate, can anyone help me?
my card is an ATI Radeon, AGP, X1300 with 512MB
[Edited on 8/4/2006]